Reflectionbot
recommended: observeReflectionbot is a web crawler operated by Reflection that collects website content to train its open AI models.
What it does
Reflectionbot tends to make broad, high-volume sweeps that fetch far more pages per visit than a search crawler. Timing is unpredictable: traffic may remain heavy throughout a collection pass, then stop entirely.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
Reflectionbot
Example user-agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Reflectionbot/1.0; +https://reflection.ai/bot) Chrome/151.0.0.0 Safari/537.36How to verify it's genuine
Reverse-DNS the visiting IP; a genuine request resolves to a hostname ending in:
@.reflection.ai
Then forward-resolve that hostname back to the same IP (forward-confirmed rDNS) to defeat spoofing.
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control Reflectionbot:
Allow full access
User-agent: Reflectionbot
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: Reflectionbot
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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